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Winter Hoop Dance
I joined a group on Facebook called The Hooping Game. Players are assigned songs, then have 48 hours to make a hoopdance video and post it back to the group. I got my song yesterday morning and braved the almost freezing temperatures at Yoyogi park to make my video. You may notice the orange-hatted preschoolers…
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Nice Day for a Walk
The weather was so beautiful today that once I left home, I could not stop walking. From my planned errand in Iidabashi, I decided to stroll through Kitanomaru Park,. When I ended up down by the Imperial East Gardens I walked through them, too. Then the Imperial Outer Gardens to Hibiya Park, where I called…
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Oh, ouch, amazing
I just spilled an entire glass of water and did a backroll into the login table. Wheeee! Ouch. I think I drank too much. Tod & I spent most of the day at the Furosato Matsuri 2014 Tokyo, a huge “hometown festival” in Tokyo Dome with hundreds of stalls vending food and drink from different…
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Protest in Japan
Today I went to the Diet to show my disapproval of the National Secrets bill. It’s a terrible law that would choke press freedom, allow the government to cover up anything in the name of national security, turn any issue into a matter of secret record, and even make demonstrations illegal. Bad, bad, bad. 80%…
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Happy Anniversary Adventures
Tod & I celebrated our 24th wedding anniversary in Shimobe Onsen, Yamanashi, this weekend. One night and two days neatly encapsulated two dozen years of marriage. The town is one of the 100 Famous Onsen of Japan, but nobody has heard of it. It’s a one-street village with ten hotels, four restaurants, one bar, a…
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Here come the Olympics
Tokyo’s Olympic bid for the 2020 summer games won out over Istanbul and Madrid yesterday. I am sure the Games that run in seven years’ time (July 24 – August 9, 2020) will be a success and give a boost to the local economy. Tourism will boom. Bilingual folks in Japan will have lots of…
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Summer Survival by Liquids
The summer weather in Tokyo is always brutal. Every year seems worse than the last, but it’s usually about the same – there are a couple of weeks when it is entirely too hot to eat, think or do much of anything. We push through the days without aircon here at home. It’s not a…
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Shape of Today
My day was spent traversing the city in a most inefficient but still sort of wonderful way. I had a ukulele lesson (1), collected my forgotten camera and Colleen’s ipod from Roon Roon (2), returned Colleen’s ipod to her (3), and ran some errands (4). Look at the pretty shape I made as I moved myself around town.
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Summer 2012 Conservation Tips
Setsuden – power conservation season – begins on Monday. This summer there will be no nuclear power generated at all, which means 11.8 gigawatts less to use. It’s made up for in part by coal (an unclean nightmare) and small increase in renewable sources, but the upshot is we have a little less power this…
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Solstice Breakfast Guest
It’s been way too long since a friend’s called us after missing the last train home – just about everyone’s got kids now and they are far too responsible to be out drinking late into the evening. So what a delight to hear from UltraBob last night. Yay! Midnight greetings and digging into the stash…
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